Profile

Wilhelmina Peace

Wilhelmina Peace is an award-winning emerging artist and printmaker based at Vault Artist Studios in Belfast. Born in New York, she spent her formative years on the outskirts of Paris, France, before moving to Northern Ireland for her studies in 2009. She obtained first class degrees both in Cultural Anthropology and Fine Art Printmaking. Her work has been exhibited across Ireland, the British Isles, and the United States, and is held in numerous private collections in different countries.

Working across drawing and printmaking, particularly etching and lithography, Peace’s practice is deeply informed by her background in anthropology. Her work explores myth, fairytale, and folklore as frameworks through which she examines the inner processes...

Wilhelmina Peace is an award-winning emerging artist and printmaker based at Vault Artist Studios in Belfast. Born in New York, she spent her formative years on the outskirts of Paris, France, before moving to Northern Ireland for her studies in 2009. She obtained first class degrees both in Cultural Anthropology and Fine Art Printmaking. Her work has been exhibited across Ireland, the British Isles, and the United States, and is held in numerous private collections in different countries.

Working across drawing and printmaking, particularly etching and lithography, Peace’s practice is deeply informed by her background in anthropology. Her work explores myth, fairytale, and folklore as frameworks through which she examines the inner processes of the human psyche and personal development. Rooted in traditions of Surrealism, Symbolism, Expressionism, and book illustration, and informed by an interest in outsider art, her practice follows an intuitive approach guided by a rich personal symbology drawn from memory and dream narratives. Through this visual language, she explores themes of metamorphosis, vulnerability, otherness, and belonging.

'I create figurative pieces that explore myth, fairy tales and folklore. I am interested in how these stories employ symbolism and metaphor to dramatize metamorphosis and self-knowing. Dreams are prime material for my work, as are archetypal female figures that spring directly from my imagination. I also draw extensive inspiration from Surrealism and the role of the unconscious in art. In keeping with my belief that it is the role of the artist to foster a deeper, more sacred attachment to nature and community, I am firmly committed to the goals of eco-feminism and my work seeks to call attention to the urgent need to reconnect with the environment and our shared humanity. Apart from my own research into mysticism and spiritual practices around the world, I am inspired by artists/art forms, writers, thinkers and poets who seek to re-enchant us with the world and reaffirm the inherent beauty of existence.' Wilhelmina Peace

Bio

BASED in Belfast (Vault Artist Studios), Northern Ireland

EDUCATION

2012 Degree in Cultural Anthropology (First Class Honours), Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2024 Degree in Fine Art Printmaking (First Class Honours), Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 ‘Tender Furies’, Black Box, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2025 ‘Wilhelmina Peace Solo Exhibition’, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, England
2025 ‘An Ambush of Angels’, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2024 ‘Fauna of Mirrors’, Vault Artist Studios Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2022 ‘Shadowlands’ (in collaboration with Raquel Amat Parra), Vault Artist Studios Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘Small but Mighty’, Bankside Gallery, London
2025 ‘Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition’, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2025 ‘Diversions’, Art for Guernsey, Guernsey, Channel Islands
2025 ‘Reflections’, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
2025 ‘The Wind at Dawn’, Francisco Oller Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Exhibition organiser and curator)
2025 ‘Cailleach’, Vault Artist Studios Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2024 ‘Curated Hang’, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, England
2024 ‘MOTHER’, Vault Artist Studios Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2023 ‘Now That’s What I Call Vault’, MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2022 ‘IMPACT 12 Symposium Exhibition’, University of the West of England, Bristol, England
2022 ‘At Ease’, Vault Artist Studios Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2022 ‘Northern Ireland Science Festival Group Exhibition’, ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2020 ‘Works on Paper’ (curated selection), Halftone Print Fair at the Library Project, Dublin, Ireland
2020 ‘Multi-Matrix Print Symposium Exhibition’, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, Northern Ireland

AWARDS

2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Prize (UK)
2024 Belfast Print Workshop Graduate Award (Northern Ireland)
2024 Seacourt Print Workshop Graduate Award (Northern Ireland)
2024 Engine Room Gallery Certificate of Excellence (Northern Ireland)

ARTIST GRANTS

2025 Artists Network Bursary (UK)
2025 Eaton Fund Award (UK)
2024, 2019 Support for Individual Artists Programme Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

COLLECTIONS

Works in numerous private collections in Northern Ireland, Ireland, England, Spain, France, Belgium, Norway, the United States, and Canada.

COMMISSIONS

2021 Cover illustration and design for 100 Project, commissioned by Beyond Skin, Belfast. A collaborative book project featuring art by and commemorating women survivors of violence-related trauma from Belfast and Bogota, Colombia.

RESIDENCY

2026 Lemonade Press, Intensive Lithography Residency, Bristol, England

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Vault Artist Studios, Belfast (Northern Ireland); Belfast Print Workshop (Northern Ireland); Visual Artists Ireland (Ireland); Artist Network (UK); Southern Graphics Council International (US).

Selected Recognitions

Recipient of the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Prize (UK)
Extensively exhibited in Northern Ireland, Dublin, London, and internationally (incl. Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition in Belfast, and Bankside Gallery in London)
Work included in private collections nationally and internationally

Show more information on this Artist ↓

Wilhelmina Peace

Working across drawing and printmaking, particularly etching and lithography, Peace’s practice is deeply informed by her background in anthropology. Her work explores myth, fairytale, and folklore as frameworks through which she examines the inner processes...

Bio

Selected Recognitions

Company

Buyers

Artists

Follow us